The Tug No. 16’s Empirical Analysis
237 F. 405 · 1916
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
February 1928
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on White v. Island Transportation Co. · The Garden City · Briggs v. Day · Shipowners' & Merchants' Tugboat Co. v. Hammond Lumber Co. · The Hoffmans
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the allegation of this petition —i. e., that there ‘may be’ other claims — be not necessary, yet an allegation in the answer might be a defense that there was no possibility of any such. I do not mean to decide that question here, because it is not necessary.” .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Aquitania
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.